Augustine Deformed: Love, Sin and Freedom in the Western Moral Tradition
Author:   John M. Rist (University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   434
Publication Date:   01 September 2016
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Augustine Deformed: Love, Sin and Freedom in the Western Moral Tradition


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Author:   John M. Rist (University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9781107428805


ISBN 10:   1107428807
Pages:   434
Publication Date:   01 September 2016
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. 'Will' and freedom, mind and love: some pre-Augustinian debates; 2. Awe-ful Augustine: sin, freedom and inscrutability; 3. Inspirational Augustine: love, desire and knowledge; 4. Anselm: will, omnipotence and responsibility; 5. Augustine and Aristotle: the problem of Thomas Aquinas; 6. Separating morality and salvation; 7. The rise and fall of lopsided Augustinianism; 8. Naturalism revised; 9. Love, will and the moral sense; 10. Radical revisionists: Hume, Kant and Rousseau; 11. Atheist 'freedoms': liberal, totalitarian and nihilist; 12. The age of deception: virtual religion, virtual morality; 13. Whither Lady Philosophy: muse, call girl or Valkyrie?; 14. Reformed Augustine, genetically modified Adam.

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John M. Rist is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Toronto and was Father Kurt Pritzl, OP, Chair in Philosophy at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, from 2012 to 2014. He is the author of fourteen books, including What Is Truth?: From the Academy to the Vatican (Cambridge, 2008) and Plato's Moral Realism: The Discovery of the Presuppositions of Ethics (2012).

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